Electoral history of

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

, who served as the 37th

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(1969–1974), the 36th

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(1953–1961); and as a two-term

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(1950–1953) and

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(1947–1950) from

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U.S. Congressional Elections (1946-50)

U.S. House Elections (1946, 1948)

1946

1948

Nixon ran unopposed in and won the 1948 Republican primary.

U.S. Senate Election (1950)

1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county

Presidential Elections (Pre-1962)

1952 U.S. Presidential Election

1952 Republican National Convention The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 7 to 11, 1952, and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike," for president an ...

(Vice Presidential tally): *

- 1,206 (100.00%) 1952 United States Presidential Election Results: Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): ElectoralCollege1952

1956 U.S. Presidential Election

1956 Republican National Convention The 1956 Republican National Convention was held by the Republican Party of the United States at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, from August 20 to August 23, 1956. U.S. Senator William F. Knowland was temporary chairman and forme ...

(Vice Presidential tally): *

(inc.) - 1,323 (100.00%) 1956 United States Presidential Election Results: Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): ElectoralCollege1956

1960 U.S. Presidential Election

1960 Republican Presidential Primaries: *

- 4,975,938 (86.63%) * Unpledged - 314,234 (5.47%) *

George H. Bender George Harrison Bender (September 29, 1896June 18, 1961) was an American Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and 1951 to 1954. He also served in the U.S. Senate from 1954 to ...

- 211,090 (3.68%) * Cecil H. Underwood - 123,756 (2.16%) * James L. Lloyd - 48,461 (0.84%) * Nelson Rockefeller - 30,639 (0.53%) * Frank R. Beckwith - 19,677 (0.34%) *

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

- 12,817 (0.22%) * Barry Goldwater - 3,146 (0.06%) * Paul C. Fisher - 2,388 (0.04%) * Adlai Stevenson - 694 (0.01%) *

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and Republican United States senator from Massachusetts in both Senate seats in non-consecutive terms of service and a United States ambassador. He was considered ...

- 514 (0.01%) *

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...

(write-in) - 172 (0.00%) * Styles Bridges - 108 (0.00%)

1960 Republican National Convention The 1960 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 25 to July 28, 1960, at the International Amphitheatre. It was the 14th and most recent time overall that Chicago hosted the Republican National Convention, more ti ...

(Presidential tally): *

- 1,321 (99.25%) * Barry Goldwater - 10 (0.75%) 1960 United States Presidential Election Results: There were 537 electoral votes, up from 531 in 1956, because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. (The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this, and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census.) Source (Popular Vote):Note: Sullivan / Curtis ran only in

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. In

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, Constitution Party ran Curtis for President and B. N. Miller for vice-president, receiving 1,401 votes. Source (Electoral Vote): ^(a) ''This figure is problematic; see Alabama popular vote above.''
^(b) ''Byrd was not directly on the ballot. Instead, his electoral votes came from unpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector.''
^(c) ''Oklahoma

faithless elector In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or ...

Henry D. Irwin, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., instead voted for non-candidate

Harry F. Byrd Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. ...

. However, unlike other electors who voted for Byrd and Strom Thurmond as Vice President, Irwin voted for Barry Goldwater as Vice President.''
^(d) ''In Mississippi, the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won. They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond.'' ElectoralCollege1960

California Gubernatorial Election (1962)

1962 California gubernatorial election results map by county

Presidential Elections (Post-1962)

1964 U.S. Presidential Election

1964 Republican Presidential Primaries: * Barry Goldwater - 2,267,079 (38.33%) * Nelson Rockefeller - 1,304,204 (22.05%) * James A. Rhodes - 615,754 (10.41%) *

- 386,661 (6.54%) * John W. Byrnes - 299,612 (5.07%) *

William Scranton William Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, and as United States Ambassador to the United Nations fr ...

- 245,401 (4.15%) *

Margaret Chase Smith Margaret Madeline Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the firs ...

- 227,007 (3.84%) *

- 197,212 (3.33%) * Unpledged - 173,652 (2.94%) *

Harold Stassen Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American politician who was the 25th Governor of Minnesota. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1948, considered for a ti ...

- 114,083 (1.93%)

1968 U.S. Presidential Election

1968 Republican Presidential Primaries: * Ronald Reagan - 1,696,632 (37.93%) *

- 1,679,443 (37.54%) * James A. Rhodes - 614,492 (13.74%) * Nelson A. Rockefeller - 164,340 (3.67%) * Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%) * Eugene McCarthy (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%) *

- 31,655 (0.71%) *

John Volpe John Anthony Volpe (; December 8, 1908November 11, 1994) was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician from Massachusetts. A son of Italian immigrants, he founded and owned a large construction firm. Politically, he was a Republican in ...

- 31,465 (0.70%) * Others - 21,456 (0.51%) * George Wallace (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%) *

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, ...

(write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%) *

Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Mi ...

(write-in) - 5,698 (0.13) * Lyndon Johnson (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%) * George Romney - 4,447 (0.10%) * Raymond P. Shafer - 1,223 (0.03%) * William W. Scranton - 724 (0.02%) *

Charles H. Percy Charles Harting Percy (September 27, 1919 – September 17, 2011) was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964, and served as a Republican U.S. senator from Illinois from 1967 ...

- 689 (0.02%) * Barry M. Goldwater - 598 (0.01%) * John V. Lindsay - 591 (0.01%)

1968 Republican National Convention The 1968 Republican National Convention was held at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Dade County, Florida, from August 5 to August 8, 1968, to select the party's nominee in the general election. It nominated former Vice Preside ...

(Presidential tally): * First ballot: **

- 692 ** Nelson Rockefeller - 277 ** Ronald Reagan - 182 ** James A. Rhodes - 55 ** George Romney - 50 **

Clifford Case Clifford Philip Case Jr. (April 16, 1904March 5, 1982), was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1945–1953) and a U.S. Senator (1955–1979) from New Jersey. He is currentl ...

- 22 **

Frank Carlson Frank Carlson (January 23, 1893May 30, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of Kansas, Kansas State representative, United States representative, and United States senator from Kansas. Carlson is the only Kansan to ...

- 20 **

Winthrop Rockefeller Winthrop Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 – February 22, 1973) was an American politician and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fourth son and fifth child of American financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He is one of the ...

- 18 ** Hiram Fong - 14 **

- 2 ** John V. Lindsay - 1 * Second ballot: **

- 1238 ** Nelson Rockefeller - 93 ** Ronald Reagan - 2 1968 United States Presidential Election Results: Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): ElectoralCollege1968

1972 U.S. Presidential Election

1972 Republican Presidential Primaries: *

(inc.) - 5,378,704 (86.92%) * Unpedged - 317,048 (5.12%) * John M. Ashbrook - 311,543 (5.03%) *

Pete McCloskey Paul Norton McCloskey Jr. (born September 29, 1927) is an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. Born in Loma Linda, California, McCloskey pursue ...

- 132,731 (2.15%) * George Wallace - 20,907 (0.34%) * None of the names shown - 8,916 (0.14%)

1972 Republican National Convention The 1972 Republican National Convention was held from August 21 to August 23, 1972 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. It nominated President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for reelection. The conve ...

(Presidential tally): *

(inc.) - 1,347 (99.93%) *

- 1 (0.07%) New York Conservative Party Presidential Convention, 1972:Our Campaigns - NY US President - C Convention Race - Aug 30, 1972
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(inc.) - 156 (69.96%) * John G. Schmitz - 38 (17.04%) * Abstaining - 29 (13.00%) 1972 United States Presidential Election Results: Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): ^(a)A

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Roger MacBride Roger Lea MacBride (August 6, 1929 – March 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, political figure, writer, and television producer. He was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1976 election. MacBride became the first president ...

, though pledged to vote for

and

Spiro Agnew Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John ...

, instead voted for Libertarian candidates

John Hospers John Hospers (June 9, 1918 – June 12, 2011) was an American philosopher and political activist. Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though she later broke with him. In 1972, Hospers becam ...

and Theodora Nathan.
^(b)In

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party. A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both. As a consequence, Jenness received 16% and 8% of the vote in Pima and Yavapai, respectively. 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties. Some sources do not count these votes for Jenness. ElectoralCollege1972

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